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Luscombe Rev. Tooke Johnson B.D. Fairbrother Charlotte (Mrs.), grazier - Kirk Wm.Swift,':'J;azier,see Whait & Kirk [rector], Rectory Fox Thomas Stafford, farmer Moore Rosa (Mrs.), farmer COMMERCIAL. Gamble Willie & Charles Henry, farmers, North Herbert, grazier Bishop Haywood, grazier & overseer Manor house Staples Arthur, farmer Davies John, farmer, The Grange Howkins John, farmer, Beeby. house Whait & Kirk, graziers BELGRAVE was formerly a civil parish. In 1891, IOrder, 32,954~ March 26,1896, the borough part was annexed by the "Leicest.er Ext.ension Act," part of it was 1l.dded t.o Leicester civil parish, and the remainder to Beaumont to that borough. And by Local Government Board Leys civil parish. It will be found included with LeiCe3ter. BELTON is a small town and parish, 4 miles north-west tributed in bread, and £10 yearly to ~be given alternately from Swanningt<>n station on the Leicester and BUl'ton to Osgathorpe, Belton and for the purpose of branch of the Midland railway and 3 miles from Tonge apprenticing a boy, to be brought up in the communion of station on the Derby and Ashby branch of the Midland the Church of . Mrs. Thompson is lady of the railway and 4 north from station on the manor; Everard March-Phillipps-de Lisle esq. and Charles and North Western railway, 6 west from / Bowles Shakespear esq. are principal landownej,s. The and 6l north-east from Ashby, 5~ south-east from Castle exors. of the late William Curzon esq. and Mrs. Thompson Donington, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of are also landowners. The soil is various. The chief crops West Goscote, Lou~hborough union, petty sessional division re wheat, barley, oats, beans and roots. The area is 2,269 and county court district, rural deanery of South Akeley, acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £3,705; popu- archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. A lation, with the liberty of Grace Dieu, in 1911, 607. • tributary to the river Soar flows through the parish. The Sexton William Room church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient building oC ' • '. • stone in the later period of the Early English style, con- Post Office.-:-Mrs. Elizabeth GIbson, sub-postmIstress. sisting of chancel, nave of four bays with clerestory, aisles, Letters arrIve from L.o~hborough at 7.35 a.m. & 4.35 south porch and a western t.ower with lofty spire, contain- . p.m. (for callers only), dispatched at 7.30 & 9.35 a:m. ing a clock and 3 bells, which have been rehung: the nave &: 5.20. p.m. week days only. Shepshed, 2! mIles arcades have each 4 arches supported on octagonal piers· dis.taut, IS the nearest mon~y order & telegrap~ office . with moulded capitals and the oak roof is carried on ancel Public Elementary School (nuxed), under the LeIcestershire corbels of stOJie, ha~dsomely carved: the carved oak County Council, erected for 120 children; Georg~S. Moore, chancel screen, a work of the Perpendicular period, was master thoroughly restored in 1894 as a memorial to Miss Loui'la GRACE DIEU is a. liberty in this parish. The manor Blakeney, sister of the vicar: there are three piscinre, one house here, the property of Everard March-Phillipps-de Lisle in the chancel and the others at the ~ast end of the aisles: esq. J.P. is a beautiful mansion, now occupied by the Rt. on t.he north side of the chancel is a niche, probably used Hon. Charles Booth p.c.; the Catholic chapel attached to as a credence: in the two windows of the north ai:>le are the mansion and dedicated to St. Mary, is in the Late remains of ancient painted glass, and the interior :t:etains Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave and north also a few ancient monumental tablets and tombstones aisle; in the latter are' two stained windows, one repre­ with inscriptions, principally to the Toone family: in the senting the institution of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper north aisle is the mutilated upper slab of an altar tomb and the other the legend of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and found in the chancel during the restoration, and supposed on the south side of the nave there are four stained windows to be part of the tomb of Roesia de Verdun, foundress with figures of saints. There are considerable remains of of Grace Dieu Priory, in this parish: in the church was Grace Dieu Priory, founded in 1240 by Roesia de Verdun buried Frands Beaumont, justice of the Common Pleas, ob. for fourteen nuns and a prioress of the order of St. Augus- 22 April, 1598: the church was restored about 1850, tine, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St. Mary; it and again in 187'i, at a cost of £300: the old brick porch was dissolved in 1539 and the Priory and lands granted to ha.'I since been replaced by one of stone: there are sittings Sir Humphrey Foster, who in turn granted them to John for 400 persons. The register dates from t.he year 1538, Beaumont, Master of the Rolls in 1550; it was next held and is in good condition. The livin~ is a discharged vicarage, by his son Francis Beaumont, Justice.- of the Common net yearly value £230, with residence and 32 a'cres of glebe, Pleas, who died here, leaving Grace Dieu to his second son in the gift of Harry William Buddicom esq. and held since John, created a baronet in 1626; his third son, Frincis 1909 by the Rev. Horace Charles Deane M.A. of St. John's Beaumont, the dramatist, was born here in 1586: in 1690 College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan Methodist and Robert Beaumont esq. of Barrow-on-Trent, disposed of the General Baptist chapels. A market was formeriy held property to Sir Ambrose Phillipps kt; who pulled down the here in the market place. The fair for horses, which is a greater part of the church in 1696. great one, is held on the first Monday after Trinity Sunday. William Shaw, who died in 1704, left his" Barnfield close," Letters through Leic!ester, via Whitwick,arrivebymessenger now producing £8 yearly, for clothing poor men; Mrs. at 8.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. week days only. Whitwick is the Margaret Mead's charity consists of lands at Osgathorpe nearest money order &; telegraph office and Belton, producing £5 yearly, 2s. per week to be dis- Carrier.-George Atkin, to Loughborough, thurs BELTON. Hammond James, Queen's Head P.H Walker George, grazier Deane Rev. Horace Charles M.A. [vicar], Husbands Wm. frmr. Low. Merrill grnge Wilson James, grazier Vicarage Jones John, farmer Wilson Joseph, beer retailer Knight Robert, farmer Woulidge Benjamin, farmer, LowWoods COMMERCIAL. • Parker Joseph, grazier farm Barnett Thomas, frmr. Top Merrdl grnge Payne Oliver, farmer Botham Edwin, farmer, Middle MerriIl Room Elizabeth (Mrs.), ,grocer grange Room William, shoe maker GRACE DIEU. Brooks James, farmer Rose John, farmer Booth Charles p.c., F.R.S. Grace Dieu Burton Frederick, farmer Rush William, beer retailer Manor house; & 28 Campden House Chester George, corn miller (water) Sault Alfred, bricklayer court, Kensington, London w Cuffiin John, grocer" draper, rate col- Smith John George, farmer lector & assistant overseer , Sutton Joseph, farmer C<>MMERCIAL Farmer Herbert &; Robert, blaCksmiths Upton Thomas, wheelwright Green Joseph (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Gibson Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Wainwright Charles, George P.H. (ac- Hoult John, farmer,.lrVarren farm post office commodation for motorists,cyclists &c. Pares William & Herbert, farmers Gilbert James, baker & shopkeeper & parties catered for) Vesty Richard Handley, farmer BELVOIR (formerly an extra-parochial liberty) is now lawns and shrubberies: the castle is open to visitors on a parish, and head of an Out-Relief Union, 2 miles south monday, thursday, and saturday upon personal application. from Redmile station on the Great Northern and London The chaplaincy of the castle is £350 yearly with residence, and North Western joint railways, 7 west-south-west from and has been held since 1892 by the Rev. Frederick William Grantham, 12 north-east from Melton Mowbray, 125 from Knox M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. On Blackberry Hill London via Melton and 116 via Grantham, and is the head is an elegant mausoleum erected in 1828 in the Norman of a petty sessional division, in the Eastern division of style: the remains of the Duchess of Rutland, d. 1825, and the county, hundred of Framland, union and county court those of several members of the Manners family have beeD district of Grantham. Belvoir Castle, the magnificent seat removed from the vault at Bottesford church to this mauso­ of the Duke of Rutland, stands on a lofty eminence on the leum. Here was once a Benedictine monastery, founded south side of the vale of Belvoir and on the site of an ancient 11076 by R. de Todeni, as a cell to St. Alban's abbey and fortress, said to have been built soon after the Norman acces- dedicated to St. Mary; at the Dissolution its revenues were sion : the extensive pleasure gardens are adorned ,with statues, . estimated at £198. The area is 715 acres; rateable value, . I/'. . L:EICS. & R[T. 2t .